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Scruffy Badger
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Furry trash, pony fan, bike nerd, sometimes I draw things, but mostly I lurk.
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Every now again I think about the guy on the SunTour catalogue and it makes my day marginally better.
The cover of a SunTour bicycle parts catalogue from the early 1970s which is illustrated in the style idiomatic to those times. Using a limited palette of greens and blues the illustrator shows us the fanciful image of a touring cyclist on the bummel: long haired, denim jacket over a stripped t-shirt. An avatar of rootless freedom for whom all things are possible, including riding long distances without getting those bell bottoms irreperably caught in the chain. This figure leans against a lovely touring bike, no doubt equipped with the finest SunTour components. Lights on both fork blades, racks fore and aft, with a handsom SunTour branded randonneuring bag. A mount that has no doubt taken our friend on many adventure. A bike to be proud of. Together the appear larger than life, against a wild background of hills and clouds striding across the landscape, colossi who possess all they behold.
February 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Been watching a lot of movies.
January 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Grasshopper mouse in her native habitat.
A pencil doodle of a mouse person standing in a sort of desert landscape. She's wearing glasses, a western shirt with smile pockets, and snaps where the buttons should be, jeans, and cowboy boots. In the background are loosely noodled in cactuses: a prickly pear bush, and a saguaro.
December 10, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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On the way home from work last night I stopped to eat at some shitty local burger chain, and as ate stale fries under the horrible florescent light, listening to the quietly desperate conversations of the other diners I thought holy fuck I'm in an Edward Hopper painting. I'm not him, but I can try.
Badger person sitting alone at a table in a nondescript fast food joint looking at their phone, with the remains of a meal in front of them.
December 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Books? You wanna touch books?
A pencil sketch of a mouse person using a chair incorrectly to recline and read a book. What book it is is left as an exercise for the viewer. Consolation of Philosophy? The Anatomy of Melancholy? Swords Against Magic? Big Betty's Bodacious Book of Boobs and Butts? The options are nearly endless, limited only by the mouse's tastes, tastes which are perhaps a little lowbrow, in not-so-obvious ways. Perhaps. Books!
December 3, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Insomnia doodles.
Two animal people standing facing each other. Are they speaking or are they not? Their proximity might suggest they are but their relative scale might suggest the otherwise. Regardless there are two facing each other, rendered in digital pencil. On the right is a badger who has not had enough sleep. They wear glasses and work clothes, holding a mog of coffee. The other critter on the left is a mouse. They wear grasses, t-shirt jeans and glasses, while staring into the middle distance, perhaps disassociating. Maybe.
November 28, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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It doesn't make any more sense with context.
A rough and ready doodle of a mouse woman in glasses, jeans and a jacket treading upon the groin of some screaming canid or other. The mouse is saying '...and anyway, that's why 'white light/white heat' is the best velvet underground album'
November 20, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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I love cold weather riding. It combines nicely with my other love: riding alone. Every other sane person is safely inside and I have the world to myself. Gotta dress for it though. Last night, snug and warm in my current clothes, it make me nostalgic for when I was more of a dirtbag cyclist.
A doodle of a badger person propping themself up by leaning on the top tube of an elderly specialized mountain bike. Being a visual stand in for the person posting this, from twenty years in the past. The critter is dressed in the finest of military surplus chic: a Bundeswehr windbreaker over a wooly pully sweater. Pants are cut off BDUs. Socks are tall striped soccer socks, covering long underwear. Shoes? The inevitable chuck tailor all stars. The bike is unremarkable, but it will work just as well. The only thing of note about it is the pair of avoset FasGrip tires. The were so good, and now the whole company is gone. Alas!
November 11, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Wrapped up Spooky Month by watching Tetsuo the Iron Man. I've wanted to see it for decades now, and it was simultaneously nothing, and exactly like I expected it to be. Grainy high contrast artsy shakeycam bullshit, but with these amazing visuals that just make it *work*. So fucking good.
A still from the movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man. It shows the character of "The Salaryman" from the movie, having achieved his final form. Entirely encased in a monumental scrap metal phallus, with only his mouth, nose, and part of a cheek remaining recognizably human. He's shown speaking, with the subtitle reading "Ah... I feel great."
November 1, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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...Evelyn Waugh, Aubry Beardsley, Vorticism, Marlene Dietrich, and ... Kenneth Graham, who is probably to blame for me being a filthy furry to begin with, and certainly the reason Enid is a badger.

She makes me want to draw clothes better, and it infuriates me that I can't find the knack.
A digital doodle, with a splash of color. The same badger woman as the first two pictures. She wears a brown tween jacket, grey slacks, and a shirt and tie. There is a carnation in her button hole, and she wears dove grey gloves on her hands. She's standing behind a rock wall with a tree behind her.
October 30, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Which isn't to say the corsets and stockings aren't there any more. She's just become a focus for kind of things that are kind of thematically parallel. All that fin-de-siecle to roaring twenties transgressive stuff. Cristopher Isherwood, Egon Schiele, pre-code Hollywood, Mädchen in Uniform...
A repost of a pencil doodle of a the same badger woman from the original post. She's wearing a corset over a long slip, which the tops of her stockings are visible through. She's wielding a cane in her right hat, cocked up over her left shoulder, ready to strike an unseen playmant, saying 'Your safeword is 'straightlaced''
October 30, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Using this space in an active way goes against the grain for me, but also I have these characters I draw that I'm fond of. And I want to share them. So here is Enid. She's a badger. She began life as a reason to think about corsets and stockings, and rattan canes, and slowly became much more.
A pencil doodle of a badger woman in a tailored suit, shown from the waist up. She's talking to someone out of frame to the left. The suit is a noisome thing with broad stripes and wide lapels, meant to be a finey, expensively tailored abomination, a sign that she knows what good taste expects, and that she's deliberately chosen to ignore it. She's holdng a wine glass.
October 30, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Scribble scribble scribble.

Not sure where she is, or why she's dressed like this, but she's found a beer.
A loose pencil sketch of a mouse woman with glasses and messy pigtails. She's wearing a jacket with nothing on under it, except for some tape Xes over her nipples. She's holding a beer in one hand, and the thumb of her other hand tucked in the waistband of her jeans.
October 5, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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[party horn]
September 17, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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They've got Firth of Fifth playing so loud that the windows are rattling.
Two mouse people sitting on a sofa, each of them in a uniquely wrong way. One sits on the floor leaning back against the front of sofa. The other is sat just next to the first, her back on the seat, thighs up the back rest, feet on the wall above it all, head hanging back off the edge to regard the first mouse who asks aloud: "Wouldn't it be cool if we got high as balls and listened to Genesis really loud?" Between the two, on the floor, is a bong.
September 1, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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Summer seems to be winding down. Maybe. Which means cooler temperatures, which makes me think of bike trips to come, which in turn makes me remember bike trips passed. And that means it's time for bikeposting! Hurrah!
A photo of a blue drop bar touring bicycle leaning against a road sign in the middle of a desert. The bicycle is loaded with a large randonneur bag attached to a fork-mounted rack, as well as a pair of panniers on a traditional rack mounted over the rear wheel. There is very little living vegetation, only sparse bits of ground cover here and there. To the left of the photo there is a small mound with a rocky top. A strip of gravel road comes into the photo from the left side and heads towards the horizon, and in the center of the frame is a signpost declaring this road to be part of the pony express trail historic route. The bicycle is leaning against this sign post.
August 27, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Apparently it's a twofer sort of night.
A sketchy doodle of a badger lady in glasses. She's only half dressed, wearing a sort of button up ... camisole ... thing? And stockings. In her left hand she's holding a long rattan cane, resting it against her shoulder while she looks at something out of frame to her left.
August 23, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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Old.

This can only end well.
A doodly sketch of a pair of anthropomorphic ponies, a unicorn and an earth pony. The unicorn is bound, wearing a halter that has a gag attached to it where a bit would go on a riding bridle, her arms are bound behind her back, and she has a magic suppression ring on her horn. She is looking distinctly worried about things. The earth pony is embracing her from behind, a hand on the unicorn's shoulder as she leans in to speak to her, saying, "I do so hope that you are beginning to see how wrong you were about me. You see - I am not actually a very nice pony."
August 23, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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Consensually crafted artistical cold pressed cider.

Older bit, drawn for a friend.
A pencil sketch of two little ponies engaged in a spot of pony play. The first pony is harnessed into an old timey cider press - a contraption somewhat akin to a horse driven grain mill, only instead a horizontal mill stone, a large round stone is held in place vertically on an axle, which is driven round and round though a stone trough, crushing apples to yield their juice for cider making. Dressed in unelaborate tack, the first pony is being taunted by the second, thus: "Something wrong, sugar cube? Can't be tired already - we ain't but half done! Best pick it up 'est you wanna see how well I handle a whip."
August 14, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Scumbag rodent
Some sort of mouse person critter, standing in an alley holding a giant bottle of beer and smoking a cigarette. They're wearing a black t-shirt, a leather jacket, and jeans, while looking at something out of frame to their right, making some sort flippant comment on the whole thing. Probably along the lines of 'sqk sqk sqk' like mice tend to do.
August 12, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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She needs to stop doing this. The fire department has already had to rescue her three times this week
An anthropomorphic cat woman reading a book while perched in the limbs of a tree.
August 10, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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I'm not sure what's going on here but I'm sure it's wholesome and will end well.
August 8, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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One more
A doodle of a badger woman reading a book
August 7, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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I did not mean to draw applejack. And yet it seems to have happened.

Might try and do more with this. Tentatively flagged as a work in progress. Maybe.
A doodle. It's a refinement of a doodle in a notebook, where a critter was sitting sideways on the bench of a restaurant booth, with their legs up on the seat. There's a big mug of coffee and an empty plate on the table in front of them. Only instead of the generic looking furry critter in the original doodle, this critter seems to have become an two-legged, clothes-wearing version of Applejack from that them there pony show
August 7, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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I happened upon someone smoking cloves the other day, and it unlocked a core memory
It's a sketchbook page of doodles. There are four figures here: Farthest left and largest on the page is a three-quarter profile doodle of a badger woman holding what is probably a clove cigarette, and looking tired. Just to the right of that figure is the very faintly drawn head of some sort of terrier dog. Below that is the figure of a fox woman, in what was supposed to be a foxy take on the character Anne Guish from the old JTHM comics, but it's been so long since I read those that I'd totally forgotten what she looked like. Lastly, kind of stuffed into the corner, is a picture of some sort of animal person half reclined and leaning against the wall in a restaurant booth. She has finished her meal and is holding a cup of coffee and smoking what is also probably a clove cigarette. The page also contains the cryptic phrase 'everyone is slowly sliding toward a butch singularity' scrawled in bad handwriting in the upper right corner, and damned if I know what I meant by that.
August 6, 2024 at 5:17 PM